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Re:Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB) by brainless on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:19AM (#3780481)
Are they using MongoDB for the wrong purposes? The task they have seems similar to logging and if so aren't there much better software to do that? A logging server perhaps?
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Re:Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB) by rogerbinns on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:25AM (#3780496)
MongoDB does have what it calls capped collections - the semantics are the same as a circular log. No idea why they don't use that storage format.

In any event this problem is one of success. That is the kind of problem I prefer having.

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